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Example sentences for: yardstick

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The owner's scope of work should be used as the yardstick against which to measure performance.
The Post has a perhaps-too-friendly story about the Pope, who's visiting Mexico: "To understand the significance of this pontiff, it helps to see him through his own eyes, and measure him by the yardstick of church history."
A yardstick I watch on a daily basis is the stock price.
The current World Health Organization treatment target of having three million people on antiretroviral therapy by the end of 2005 (the “3 by 5” objective) provides a yardstick for only one part of the equation.
They will insist, through legislation and other means, that Beijing's behavior toward Hong Kong become the yardstick by which Washington determines its level of cooperation with China.